Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

This book offers a systematic reconstruction of Paulin Hountondji’s contributions to the debate about the place of modern science on the African continent.

What form, or forms, might ethical knowledge take?

Epistemological theories of knowledge and justification draw a crucial distinction between one's simply having good reasons for some belief and one's actually basing one's belief on good reasons.

The ways in which human action and rationality are guided by norms are well documented in philosophy and neighboring disciplines.

This book offers a new approach to film studies by showing how our brains use our interpretations of various other films in order to understand Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo.

Philosophical questions regarding the nature and methodology of philosophical inquiry have garnered much attention in recent years.

This volume provides an overview of applications of conceptual spaces theory, beginning with an introduction to the modeling tool that unifies the chapters.

Explores past and present arguments for and against divine determinism, presenting balanced discussion of a major philosophical and religious debate.

Over time, philosophers and historians of science have introduced different notions of 'ways of thinking'.

Jordi Fernandez here offers a philosophical investigation of memory, one which engages with memory's philosophically puzzling characteristics in order to clarify what memory is.

This book contains a selection of original conference papers covering all major fields in the philosophy of science, that have been organized into themes.

In Deutschland ist die Philosophie Nicolas Malebranches (1638–1715) über den anderen großen nachcartesianischen Systemen fast vergessen.

This book leaves no stone unturned in its comprehensive examination of the complex challenges surrounding academic freedom in Africa.

In Michael Polanyi and His Generation, Mary Jo Nye investigates the role that Michael Polanyi and several of his contemporaries played in the emergence of the social turn in the philosophy of science.

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Virtue ethics is on the move both in Anglo-American philosophy and in the rest of the world.

This book offers a comprehensive critique of the Kantian principle that 'objects conform to our cognition' from the perspective of a Copernican world-view which stands diametrically opposed to Kant's because founded on the principle that our cognition conforms to objects.

This volume argues that theistic philosophy should be seen not as an "e;armchair"e; enterprise but rather as a critical endeavor to bring philosophy of religion into close contact with emerging sciences of religion.

A groundbreaking study of one of the greatest encyclopedias of the medieval Islamic world-al-Nuwayri's The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of EruditionShihab al-Din al-Nuwayri was a fourteenth-century Egyptian polymath and the author of one of the greatest encyclopedias of the medieval Islamic world-a thirty-one-volume work entitled The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition.

Although the study of reasons plays an important role in both epistemology and moral philosophy, little attention has been devoted to the question of how, exactly, reasons interact to support the actions or conclusions they do.

A study of the interactions between the semantics, epistemology and metaphysics of the future.

This volume brings together new research on the topic of epistemic closure from both leading philosophers and emerging voices in epistemology.

Written by a team of leading international scholars, The Agon of Interpretations explores the challenges and possibilities of critical intercultural hermeneutics in a globalized world.

This book provides an epistemological study of the great Islamic scholar of Banjarese origin, Syeikh Muhammad Arsyad al-Banjari (1710-1812) who contributed to the development of Islam in Indonesia and, in general, Southeast Asia.

Ultralogic as Universal?

Alkibiades ist gerade volljährig geworden.

Seitdem die Menschheit reflektiert, macht sie sich Gedanken darüber, ob Wach- und Traumbewusstsein identisch oder verschieden seien.

This rich collection of essays addresses all the key aspects of Cassirer''s multi-faceted philosophical thought.

IN MEMORIAM OF ARTUR ROJSZCZAK For a teacher, the opportunity to write the Foreword to a student's work gives rise to a sense offul?

Challenges the idea that knowledge of a conclusion requires knowledge of essential premises, a widely accepted concept in epistemology.

This volume brings together nineteen of Mark Siderits's most important essays on Buddhist philosophy.

This book explores curiosity from a normative epistemological viewpoint.

In an effort to address the problems confronting the American education system, the Obama administration has issued structural and systematic reforms such as Race to the Top.

This original and innovative book is an exploration of one of the key mysteries of the mind, the question of consciousness.

The Emergent Multiverse presents a striking new account of the 'many worlds' approach to quantum theory.

We must all make choices about how we want to live.

This book provides a timely, compelling, multidisciplinary critique of the largely tacit set of assumptions funding Modernity in the West.

An original exploration of Ancient Greek conceptions of the relationship between memory, time, knowledge and identity across diverse genres.

There are very few concepts that fascinate equally a theoretical physicist studying black holes and a patient undergoing seriolls mental psychosis.

The philosophy of perception investigates the nature of our sensory experiences and their relation to reality.

When this book was first published in English in 1975, the previous forty years had seen the emergence of a new tradition in the philosophy of the sciences, or 'epistemology' in France.